Quotes from Boethius

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

For in all adversity of fortune, it is the most unhappy kind of misfortune to have been happy.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend—Path, motive, guide, original and end.

Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy